If you want to fight a parking ticket in Chicago (and a lot of other places, I am sure), you are on the hook for court costs if they deny your claim. This ticket is already usually $60+, court fees are upwards of $100. So the city does everything it can to deter you from even trying to fight the ticket.

I think if they were all-wheel drive I could.

Was expecting the last one to be “Miata”.

I think I romanticize the unreliability of it. I also learned to drive on a ‘82 Fiat Spider. I will say that when they started up the 124 in the garage I jumped because the quad exhausts were so loud.

I own a 14 year old Land Rover and a 46 year old Triumph TR6... so I am not allowed to comment on reliability.

I know it’s not as loved, but we rented a (Fiat) Abarth 124 in Italy and I would buy that before the Miata. Sorry.

When I was fresh out of college and working for a Enterprise Rent a Car, we had a few Mazda 3 hatchbacks with the 2.3(?) liter in them, and they were among my favorite car to take out.

Hey! It’s on BaT right now at $19k... I’m sure it won’t go any higher.

Back then the Kia Optimas and Hyundai Sonatas were in the Intermediate category (it went: Compact, Intermediate, Standard, Full), one below the PT. We could easily get away with putting someone in a Sonata before we could put them in a PT. Just so angry thinking about those PT Cruisers... ugh. Sorry.

We never had too many of the HHRs. In their defense; at least they were larger. The Dodge Magnums were hit or miss for renters.

They all have the exact same silhouette. The Lambo Urus has the same outline as a CX-9. “Oh, but the performance...” Go get a sports car then.

This would be CP if it had been kept in temperature controlled storage, fired up once a month, with a total of 1,500 miles, and a perfect engine at ANY price.

That’s cheaper than some clownshoes.

I’m like 99% sure they used a RetroSound radio in there. They are pretty pricey at ~$300 for the Bluetooth version, but it has been the best upgrade to our TR6 I’ve done.

What an odd quirk.

We got a Disco 2 last year. The first thing I did was replace the head gasket. Din’t “need” it, but I wasn’t going to wait until it did.

I barely made it through 20 minutes of RP1. I knew it was going to be garbage from the opening shot that shows the main character leaving his house in a trope-y “look how slick he is” manner.

Lancia Stratos Zero:

This guy does make the rounds to the shows. This was from this year’s show, but I think he was there last year, too.